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Table Tennis at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games:
Men's Singles
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Host City: Barcelona, Spain
Venue(s): North Station Sports Hall, Barcelona
Date Started: July 30, 1992
Date Finished: August 6, 1992
Format: Round-robin qualifying pools, followed by single-elimination tournament.
| Gold: |  Jan-Ove Waldner |
| Silver: |  Jean-Philippe Gatien |
| Bronze: |  Kim Taek-Su Ma Wenge |
Summary
Jan-Ove Waldner (SWE) had won the 1989 World Championship while his countryman Jörgen Persson was World Champion in 1991, defeating Waldner in the final. Waldner was somewhat erratic, but not in Barcelona. He was an easy winner of the gold medal, winning all his matches and losing only one of 19 games. In the final, he swept France’s Jean-Philippe Gatien, world ranked #1, in three games. The bronze medal went to Korea’s Kim Taek-Soo, which made for a very interesting podium as no Chinese player was on it. Thru 2008, this is the only Olympic table tennis event at which the Chinese have been shut out of the medals. Persson lost in the quarter-finals to China’s Ma Wenge, who lost in the semis to Gatien.
Final Standings
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jan-Ove Waldner | 26 | Sweden | SWE | Gold | |
| 2 | Jean-Philippe Gatien | 23 | France | FRA | Silver | |
| 3T | Ma Wenge | 24 | China | CHN | Bronze | |
| 3T | Kim Taek-Su | 22 | South Korea | KOR | Bronze | |
| 5T | Yi Ding | 33 | Austria | AUT | ||
| 5T | Jörgen Persson | 26 | Sweden | SWE | ||
| 5T | Wang Tao | 24 | China | CHN | ||
| 5T | Jörg Roßkopf | 23 | Germany | GER | ||
| 9T | Yu Nam-Gyu | 24 | South Korea | KOR | ||
| 9T | Jean-Michel Saive | 22 | Belgium | BEL | ||
| 9T | Paul Haldan | 27 | Netherlands | NED | ||
| 9T | Steffen Fetzner | 23 | Germany | GER | ||
| 9T | Andrzej Grubba | 34 | Poland | POL | ||
| 9T | Zoran Primorac | 23 | Croatia | CRO | ||
| 9T | Li Gun-Sang | 26 | North Korea | PRK | ||
| 9T | Carl Prean | 24 | Great Britain | GBR | ||
| 17T | Andrey Mazunov | 25 | Unified Team | EUN | ||
| 17T | Choi Kyong-Sob | 20 | North Korea | PRK | ||
| 17T | Cláudio Kano | 26 | Brazil | BRA | ||
| 17T | Hiroshi Shibutani | 25 | Japan | JPN | ||
| 17T | Hugo Hoyama | 23 | Brazil | BRA | ||
| 17T | Ilija Lupulesku | 24 | Individual Olympic Athletes | IOA | ||
| 17T | Jim Butler | 21 | United States | USA | ||
| 17T | Kamlesh Mehta | 32 | India | IND | ||
| 17T | Gang Hui-Chan | 22 | South Korea | KOR | ||
| 17T | Kim Song-Hui | 23 | North Korea | PRK | ||
| 17T | Koji Matsushita | 24 | Japan | JPN | ||
| 17T | Lo Chuen Tsung | 28 | Hong Kong | HKG | ||
| 17T | Matthew Syed | 21 | Great Britain | GBR | ||
| 17T | Mikael Appelgren | 30 | Sweden | SWE | ||
| 17T | Petr Korbel | 21 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | ||
| 17T | Zoran Kalinić | 34 | Individual Olympic Athletes | IOA | ||
| 33T | Atanda Musa | 32 | Nigeria | NGR | ||
| 33T | Anton Suseno | 20 | Indonesia | INA | ||
| 33T | Dmitry Mazunov | 21 | Unified Team | EUN | ||
| 33T | Igor Solopov | 31 | Estonia | EST | ||
| 33T | Lu Lin | 23 | China | CHN | ||
| 33T | Michael Hyatt | 22 | Jamaica | JAM | ||
| 33T | Nicolas Chatelain | 22 | France | FRA | ||
| 33T | Yomi Bankole | 32 | Nigeria | NGR | ||
| 33T | Peter Jackson | 27 | New Zealand | NZL | ||
| 33T | Piotr Skierski | 20 | Poland | POL | ||
| 33T | Roberto Casares | 28 | Spain | ESP | ||
| 33T | Roland Vími | 23 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | ||
| 33T | Sean O'Neill | 24 | United States | USA | ||
| 33T | Sule Olaleye | 24 | Nigeria | NGR | ||
| 33T | Takehiro Watanabe | 30 | Japan | JPN | ||
| 33T | Tomáš Jančí | 24 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | ||
| 49T | Attaher Mohamed El-Mahjoub | Libya | LBA | |||
| 49T | Abdelhadi Legdali | 26 | Morocco | MAR | ||
| 49T | Ashraf Abdel Halim Helmy | 25 | Egypt | EGY | ||
| 49T | Augusto Morales | 25 | Chile | CHI | ||
| 49T | Chetan Baboor | 18 | India | IND | ||
| 49T | Ibrahim Al-Idokht | 24 | Iran | IRI | ||
| 49T | Joe Ng | 28 | Canada | CAN | ||
| 49T | Hagen Bower | 20 | New Zealand | NZL | ||
| 49T | José María Pales | 29 | Spain | ESP | ||
| 49T | Louis Botha | 35 | South Africa | RSA | ||
| 49T | Marcos Núñez | 31 | Chile | CHI | ||
| 49T | Mourad Sta | 25 | Tunisia | TUN | ||
| 49T | Raed Hamdan | 30 | Saudi Arabia | KSA | ||
| 49T | Rubén Arado | 21 | Cuba | CUB | ||
| 49T | Santiago Roque | 25 | Cuba | CUB | ||
| 49T | Yair Nathan | 21 | Peru | PER |
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